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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.  The road-trip flick “Sideways” led the 62nd annual Golden Globe contenders yesterday with seven nominations, including best musical or comedy film, three acting nominations and best director, while Jamie Foxx scored a record three nominations.

The Howard Hughes biography “The Aviator” landed six nominations including best dramatic feature and best director.

The Golden Globes are handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. With a nationally televised awards ceremony on NBC (set for Jan. 16) and a knack for picking eventual Academy Awards winners, the Globes wield a fair amount of sway among the 5,800 Oscar voters.

The Globes last January correctly predicted eventual Oscar winners in all key categories, including best-picture champ “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” and actors Sean Penn, Charlize Theron, Tim Robbins and Renée Zellweger.

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“Accidentally in Love” from “Shrek 2”; “Believe” from “The Polar Express”; “Learn to be Lonely” from “Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera”; “Million Voices” from “Hotel Rwanda”; “Old Habits Die Hard” from “Alfie.”